plastics suddenly appear as something you can use for furniture, you can use for clothing, you can use in all sorts of new ways. 1968 is when it was first produced. and the idea was that because you can shut it it's waterproof. it can live out of doors, it can come in the house. it was all to do with that move of bringing the garden into the house, the house into the garden. informal open living, which was very much part of the 1960s. if ever there's an antique for the future, - here it is. - thanks very much. but equally there are lots of extraordinary backwaters of technology where somebody thought, "i've got it. i'm going to save the world and make a fortune by making a machine that does something completely ridiculous." and of course it doesn't work. he patents it, nobody buys it, it disappears into some black hole of history. and when those come on, that's a great moment 'cause you look at it and think, "i can't believe somebody ever thought this was going to change the world." bruce: the sinclair c5 rode into u.k. towns in 1985 and quickly became iconic, but failed to capture the